IPhone backup (in icloud) doesn't appear later (for restoring)

Hello,
I have all these iDevices, with iOS 5 and with backups in iCloud:
iphone 3GS
iPad
iPhone 4S (let's call this "4S1")
I have received a second (new) iPhone 4S (let's call it "4S2"), and want to use it instead of 4S1, so I thought I could iCloud backups to transfer everything from 4S1 to the new 4S2. I made a backup of 4S1 in iCloud, then switched on 4S2, and in the initial setup procedure, chose "restore from iCloud backup". But in the available backups, only appear those of 3GS and ipad, not the backup of 4S1.
I manually made more backups of 4S1, but again, none of them are available for 4S2 to restore from them (only backups of the 3GS and iPad)...
I deleted the backups of the 3GS in iCloud, even disabled iCloud inside the 3GS, then made more backups of 4S1, but... now the only backups available to restore to 4S2 are those of the iPad, not valid for me.
The "funny" thing is that, in the 4S1, under settings-icloud-storage and copies (well, mine is in spanish, don't know how this is written in english ios)-manage storage, THERE IS a backup of the 4S1, so... why doesn't it appear as available when I try to restore that backup to the new 4S2?
Thanks in advance,

Excuse me, I forgot to include that I read this discussion:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/17838682#17838682
so it appears that one probable cause is, the backups from 4S1 are made with iOS 5.1, and the new 4S2 has 5.0.1. I have read documentation from Apple, and found none stating that the backups were incompatible between different iOS 5 versions.
In the mentioned discussion you can read that the solution is to upgrade the 4S2 to iOS 5.1. The thing is, I don't want to upgrade 4S2 to 5.1.1 by now... Could it be possible to use still the backups of my 4S1?
Thanks,

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